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enThe Great Afghan Corruption Scam http://www.crimemagazine.com/great-afghan-corruption-scam
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>How Operation Enduring Freedom Mutated into Operation Enduring Corruption</strong> </span><br />By <a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/authors/diliphiro" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dilip Hiro</a> <a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175677/tomgram%3A_dilip_hiro%2C_how_the_pentagon_corrupted_afghanistan/#more" rel="nofollow">Tomdispatch.com</a></p>
<p>Washington has vociferously denounced Afghan corruption as a major obstacle to the U.S. mission in Afghanistan. This has been widely reported. Only one crucial element is missing from this routine censure: a credible explanation of why American nation-building failed there. No wonder. To do so, the U.S. would have to denounce itself.</p>
<p>Corruption in Afghanistan today is acute and permeates all sectors of society. In recent years, anecdotal evidence on the subject has been superseded by the studies of researchers, surveys by NGOs, and periodic reports by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). There is also the <a href="http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2012/results/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Corruption Perceptions Index</a> of the Berlin-based Transparency International (TI). Last year, it bracketed Afghanistan with two other countries as the most corrupt on Earth.</p>
<p>None of these documents, however, refers to the single most important fact when it comes to corruption: that it’s Washington-based. It is, in fact, rooted in the massive build-up of U.S. forces there from 2005 onward, the accompanying expansion of American forward operating bases, camps, and combat outposts from 29 in 2005 to <a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175204/nick_turse_america%27s_shadowy_baseworld" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">nearly 400</a> five years later, and above all, the tsunami of cash that went with all of this. <a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175677/tomgram%3A_dilip_hiro%2C_how_the_pentagon_corrupted_afghanistan/#more" rel="nofollow"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>
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<p> Published on Mar 3, 2013</p>
<p>The Chicago Inspector General is run into the ground after David Hoffman retired. We need to remove Joe Ferguson now.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p class="first"><img style="float: right;" src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/F48PBJgbFCBDnJdlrAfb7g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Y2g9MjExMztjcj0xO2N3PTMwNjg7ZHg9MDtkeT0wO2ZpPXVsY3JvcDtoPTQzNDtxPTg1O3c9NjMw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/bcb567d58d7e4502270f6a7067000d6e.jpg" alt="" width="200" />Jan. 22, 2013 <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/files-show-la-church-leaders-shielded-priests-081759296.html" rel="nofollow">Associated Press</a></p>
<p class="first">LOS ANGELES — Retired Cardinal Roger Mahony and other top Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles officials maneuvered behind the scenes to shield molester priests, provide damage control for the church and keep parishioners in the dark, according to church personnel files.</p>
<p>The confidential records filed in a lawsuit against the archdiocese disclose how the church handled abuse allegations for decades and also reveal dissent from a top Mahony aide who criticized his superiors for covering up allegations of abuse rather than protecting children.</p>
<p>Notes inked by Mahony demonstrate he was disturbed about abuse and sent problem priests for treatment, but there also were lengthy delays or oversights in some cases. Mahony received psychological reports on some priests that mentioned the possibility of many other victims, for example, but there is no indication that he or other church leaders investigated further.</p>
<p>"This is all intolerable and unacceptable to me," Mahony wrote in 1991 on a file of the Rev. Lynn Caffoe, a priest suspected of locking boys in his room, videotaping their crotches and running up a $100 phone sex bill while with a boy. Caffoe was sent for therapy and removed from ministry, but Mahony didn't move to defrock him until 2004, a decade after the archdiocese lost track of him.</p>
<p>"He is a fugitive from justice," Mahony wrote to the Vatican's Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who is now Pope Benedict XVI. "A check of the Social Security index discloses no report of his demise, so presumably he is alive somewhere."</p>
<p>Caffoe died in 2009, six years after a newspaper reporter found him working at a homeless mission two blocks from a Salinas elementary school.<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/files-show-la-church-leaders-shielded-priests-081759296.html" rel="nofollow"><strong></strong></a></p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-forums field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Forums:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="sioc:has_container"><a href="/forums/corruption" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Corruption</a></div></div></div>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:32:50 +0000admin781 at http://www.crimemagazine.comhttp://www.crimemagazine.com/files-show-how-la-church-leaders-shielded-priests#commentsMiami police sergeant takes stand, denies accusations in federal corruption trialhttp://www.crimemagazine.com/miami-police-sergeant-takes-stand-denies-accusations-federal-corruption-trial
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h3 class="subheadline">Miami police Sgt. Raul Iglesias took the witness stand to defend himself, denying all allegations against him.</h3>
<p class="byline">By Jay Weaver <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/14/3182123/miami-police-sergeant-takes-stand.html" rel="nofollow">Miami Herald</a></p>
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<p>A Miami police sergeant who headed a drug-fighting squad testified in his federal corruption trial Monday, denying ever planting drugs on a suspect or stealing drugs and money from dope dealers.</p>
<p>Sgt. Raul Iglesias, 40, accused of being a dirty cop, also denied ever asking detectives in his unit for “throw-down dope’’ to plant on the suspect in a downtown Miami parking lot in early 2010.</p>
<p>“Absolutely not,’’ Iglesias testified, disputing the recent testimony of two detectives who accused him of asking them for throw-down drugs. “That’s a ridiculous statement.’’</p>
<p>Iglesias further testified that he never told a third detective that it was OK to pay confidential informants with drugs. That detective testified that he did that once in 2010, with Iglesias sitting by his side in an unmarked police vehicle, but Iglesias denied that the confidential informant was paid with a small amount of cocaine.</p>
<p>“I have no knowledge that he ever paid [the informant] with drugs,’’ Iglesias testified during direct examination as the first defense witness. The government rested its case on Friday.</p>
<p>Iglesias, who is scheduled to continue testifying, faces nine counts of conspiracy to possess cocaine, violating suspects’ civil rights, obstruction of justice and making false statements. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison.</p>
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